VBA-PS3 v0.9.9 - GB GBA Emulator With Shaders

halsafar a valued member over at PSGroove has released his port of a VBA emulator!

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I am pleased to finally release my teams port of VBA (Visual Boy Advance) to the public. It is a clean port of the most recent VBA-M emulator, that is fully functional, equal to our teams SNES9X-PS3 and FCEU-PS3 releases.

We spent some time optimizing it. The VBA-M source is not conducive to being run on the PPU. After applying many small optimizations we have obtained 60fps in all the important games.

Enjoy GB and GBA with shaders!

Vba 0.99.1 (3.41 only, 1.92 coming soon)

Download: VBA 0.99.1 (via) Multiupload

Report bugs, slow games or feature requests to the google code issue tracker: VBA-PS3 GIT

Thanks!
HAL
CHANGELOG:

- Speed improvements (Metroid Zero Mission - Advance Wars - Advance Wars 2 - Wario Land 4 - just to name a few)

News Source: PSGroove.com - VBA-PS3 v0.9.9 - GB GBA Emulator With Shaders Released

Part Of The Readme:

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This is an application for the PlayStation3 that makes it possible to play Game Boy Classic / Game Boy Color / Game Boy Advance games on your jailbroken PlayStation3. It is based on an up-to-date version of the popular PC emulator, VBA-M.

1. CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED VBA-M FUNCTIONS
* Saving/loading of SRAM
* Savestate loading/saving support
– Savestate slot selectable in-game
– Up to 10 saveslots

2.1.1 CONTROLS IN ROM MENU
Up - Go up
Down - Go down
Left - Go back five file entries
Right - Go forward five file entries
L1 - Go back one page
R1 - Go forward one page
Cross - (If directory selected) enter directory/ (if ROM selected) start ROM
Triangle - (If ROM selected) start ROM with multitap support
Circle - (If not in root directory) Go back to previous directory
L2 + R2 - (If you previously exited a ROM) return to game
Select - Go to settings menu (see ‘CONTROLS IN SETTINGS MENU’ section)

2.1.2 CONTROLS IN SETTINGS MENU
Up - Go up one setting.
Down - Go down one setting.
Left - Change setting to the left.
Right - Change setting to the right.
Circle - Go back to ROM menu/Go back to previous Settings screen
Start - Reset the setting back to the default value.
R1 - Go to the next Settings screen
L1 - Go to the previous Settings screen
L3 + R3 - Return back to game (if a ROM is loaded)

2.1.3 CONTROLS IN-GAME
Nothing worth really explaining here –

R3 + L3 - Press these two buttons together while in-game to go back to the ROM browser menu.
R3 + R2 - Save to currently selected save state slot
L3 + L2 - Load from currently selected save state slot
Right analog stick – Left - Move current savestate slot one slot backwards
Right analog stick – Right - Move current savestate slot one slot forward

To play a game with a USB controller as Player 1, start up your PS3 and rather than using the Sixaxis, DualShock3, plug in an USB port before connecting the controller to the PS3 – your USB pad should then become Controller 1.

5.1 GENERAL NOTES
* For people running this on HDTVs complaining about input lag:
- Turn off all post-processing filters you may have running - on Sony Bravia HDTVs, display Motion Flow (this also causes input lags with most games in general, not just this application. If your HDTV has a 'Game' mode or something of the sort, select that as well.

5.2 PERFORMANCE NOTES
This emulator has been optimized to run most games at full-speed (at any resolution)

[via: PSX-SCENE]